For anyone who enjoys nature, summer is a fascinating time to be outside. Animals are on the move: Turtles are nesting, baby birds are testing their wings, snakes are foraging and young mammals are emerging.
Plants & Animals
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Researchers from Basel have identified the genetic basis of rapid adaptation using a native fish species. They compared threespine stickleback fish from different habitats in the Lake Constance region. Their study reveals ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 27, 2020
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Invasive species offer a rare research opportunity, as they often colonize new environments very different to their native habitat. One such species is the Jackson's three-horned chameleon (Triocerus j. xantholophus), which ...
Evolution
May 12, 2022
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Bumblebees change their home ranges and dietary preferences after establishing nests, suggesting that diversified landscapes help support bee populations as their needs change during different phases of their lifecycle, according ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 8, 2020
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists has discovered that descendants of "exploratory" butterflies that colonized new habitats differ genetically from their more cautious cousins. The team, led by James Marden, a professor ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2011
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Brown widow spiders are relatively new to North America, where they were first documented in Florida in 1935, and even newer to southern California, where they were only recently discovered in 2003. However, in the last decade ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 2, 2012
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University of Delaware doctoral student Danielle Haulsee is the lead author on a paper reporting the combined use of underwater robotics and acoustic telemetry to understand sand tiger shark habitat and migration in the Delaware ...
Ecology
Jun 3, 2015
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Invasive animals are often most abundant in habitats impacted by humans, especially man-made habitats, such as roadsides, suburban and urban developments, and areas of intensive agricultural activity. Understanding why this ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2013
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In a demonstration of "reverse-ecology," biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that one can determine an organism's adaptive traits by looking first at its genome and checking for variations across ...
Biotechnology
Jan 31, 2011
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Scientists have challenged a popular theory behind the evolution of similar traits in island lizards, in a study published recently in eLife.
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